London (ots/PRNewswire) – Timothy Gowers and Terence Tao, both recipients of the Fields Medal, have been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) Prize. Other members include Po-Shen Loh, Dan Roberts and Geoff Smith.
XTX Market has announced the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) prize. This $10 million competition aims to support the development of a publicly available AI model capable of winning the gold medal in the classical International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
XTX Markets is pleased to be supported by prominent mathematicians as well as AI and machine learning specialists. Advisory committee members include Timothy Gowers and Terence Tao. Both are recipients of the Fields Medal, one of the most important awards in the world of mathematics.
Other members include Po-Shen Loh, former coach of the USA IMO team, Dan Roberts, AI researcher at Sequoia Capital and MIT and a recognized expert in machine learning, and Geoff Smith, former president of the IMO.
The AIMO Advisory Committee develops the framework for the AIMO Prize, including the appropriate protocols and technical aspects, and designs the various competition formats and awards.
Terence Tao, Fields Medalist and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California (UCLA), explained:
“Despite recent advances, it remains an incredibly large and complex challenge for AI to solve or support the solution of complex mathematical problems. Achieving this goal requires experimentation with a wide variety of approaches, the effectiveness of which must be carefully measured.
The AIMO Prize is one way to measure this effectiveness. Various AI-based problem-solving strategies will be compared on a technical level and presented and made accessible to a broad public.”
Timothy Gowers, also a recipient of the Fields Medal and Professor of Combinatorics at the Collège de France, added:
“Machine learning has enjoyed spectacular successes in many areas. However, when it comes to tasks that require thinking on multiple levels, this principle still has its limits. For this reason, complex mathematical problems have so far been considered one of the major hurdles for AI. If it were to be overcome, countless new and important areas of application would open up. The AIMO Prize will play an important role in advancing research in this direction.
What is particularly welcome is that the research results of this prize will be publicly accessible. We hope that this will make faster and more efficient progress.”‘
The $5 million grand prize will be awarded to the first publicly available AI model to enter an AIMO-approved competition and achieve a result equivalent to an IMO gold medal. There will be other so-called Advance Prizes with a total amount of up to $5 million for publicly available AI models that reach important milestones on the way to the grand prize.
The first AIMO-eligible competitions will be open to participants in early 2024. There will be a progress presentation at the 65th IMO in Bath, England, in July 2024. Further information on the Progress Prizes will be published shortly.
Eoghan Flanagan, Director of the AIMO Prize, explained:
“We are pleased to welcome such highly respected members of the mathematical world to the AIMO Prize Advisory Committee. I look forward to working with them to develop and design the award.”
For more information and updates on the AIMO Prize, please visit
The members of the advisory committee:
Timothy Gowers Timothy Gowers won the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1981 and then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his doctorate and then worked as a research fellow. He moved to University College London for a time and then returned to Trinity College as a lecturer before being appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics. Between 2009 and 2020 he was a research professor at the Royal Society, and since October 2020 he has been a professor of combinatorics at the Collège de France. He discovered the first quantitative proof of Szemerédi’s theorem and subsequently conducted research in the field of additive combinatorics. For this he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. In recent years he has been conducting research in the area of automated theorem proving and currently leads a research team focused on symbolic methods.
Po-Shen Loh Po-Shen Loh is a mathematics professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a social entrepreneur. He uses combinatorics and game theory to develop solutions for everything from education to pandemic control. He won a silver medal at the IMO in his youth and coached the U.S. IMO team for a decade. During this time, the team took first place worldwide four times. He travels all over the world for his lectures and events. They are visited by more than 10,000 people a year. There are also millions of viewers on YouTube. He is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and is also a Hertz Scholar.
Dan Roberts Dan Roberts is an AI fellow at Sequoia Capital and a researcher at MIT. Before joining Sequoia in 2023, he co-founded an AI company that was acquired by Salesforce. He was also a researcher at Facebook AI Research. As an AI researcher, he co-authored, among other things, “The Principles of Deep Learning Theory,” published by Cambridge University Press. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton received his doctorate in theoretical physics as a Hertz Scholar and studied as a Marshall Scholar in the United Kingdom.
Geoff Smith Geoff Smith, recipient of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is an activist in the world of Mathematics Olympiads. He has enriched the world of mathematics since 1990 and has been involved in mathematics competitions since 1999. He was President of the IMO between 2014 and 2022 . He is Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and was instrumental in establishing the Mathematics Olympiad for Girls in Europe in 2012, which is now thriving under the leadership of women. His academic career began in the field of group theory. His interests later expanded to geometry He has also written articles for publications in the life sciences and social sciences. He is also an Honorary Reader in Mathematics at the University of Bath.
Terence Tao Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975. He competed in three IMOs and won the gold medal in 1987. He is now a professor of mathematics at UCLA and received his doctorate in 1996 under Elias Stein at Princeton. His research focuses on, among other things, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations (PDE), combinatorics and number theory. He has received numerous awards, including the 2000 Salem Prize, the 2006 Fields Medal, the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2012 Crafoord Prize, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Terence Tao is also a James and Carol Collins Chair in Mathematics at UCLA, a member of several national academies, and a presidential advisor on science and technology.
Information about XTX Markets:
XTX Markets is a leading financial technology company that, together with partners worldwide, organizes exchanges and e-trading events to generate investments for equity, FX, fixed income and commodities markets. XTX has more than 200 employees in London, Paris, New York, Mumbai, Yerevan and Singapore. XTX has been one of the top 5 liquidity providers on the FX market worldwide for years (Euromoney 2018 to date) and is also one of the largest liquidity providers for European public companies (systematic internaliser) (Rosenblatt FY: 2020-2023).
The company’s philanthropic activities focus on promoting STEM education and maximum impact donations, as well as an employee matching program. Since 2017, XTX has donated more than £100 million to charities and good causes. This makes the company one of the largest donors in the UK and worldwide.
In a rapidly changing world, XTX Markets is at the forefront of making financial markets fairer and more efficient for everyone.
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